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DIY wooden iPhone Dock

September 8th, 2011

I finally made the leap from a desktop as my main computer to a laptop.

I’ve been waiting ever since the 11″ MacBook Air was introduced, for Apple to put a decent processer in it. Finally that time as come and I jumped in and grabbed an i7 11″ Air.

Unfortunately my desk needs some rearranging to work with my new mobile lifestyle. I had to dump one of my monitors, and I need to make a stand to raise and angle my Air a bit, and maybe mount a few USB peripherals, we’ll see…

I haven’t had much time in the shop this summer as I’ve been building a coop for our ducks, managing a large garden and doing numerous outdoor things; but I had an itch to work with some hardwood so I decided to throw together a quick iPhone dock. I had some scrap Wenge and Cherry laying around so here is a quick gallery of the process.

Ok back to canning a huge amount of tomato sauce…

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  1. Earl Hensley
    September 8th, 2011 at 21:57 | #1

    Nice!

  2. September 12th, 2011 at 16:30 | #2

    Nice! I catually like the holes left by the lead of the forstner bit. Kinda reminds me of an old school serial cable, which fits incely in this application.

  3. Nik Brown
    September 12th, 2011 at 19:39 | #3

    Torch02 :
    Nice! I catually like the holes left by the lead of the forstner bit. Kinda reminds me of an old school serial cable, which fits incely in this application.

    Yea I like the design as well… I just wish I had thought of it before I started and I would have made the pattern a bit more even.

  4. September 14th, 2011 at 21:36 | #4

    Very cool, Nik! I’ve been seeing some of the pics at the top of the WTO forum, nice to know who is responsible. Love the Altoids tin form factor.

  5. Nik Brown
    September 14th, 2011 at 22:08 | #5

    @Aaron
    Thanks man! 🙂 Hope to see you in a couple weeks at WIA 😀

  6. Rusty
    September 29th, 2011 at 10:23 | #6

    Nice! Do you think it will be ‘forward compatible’, i.e. iPhone 5?

  7. Nik Brown
    September 29th, 2011 at 10:37 | #7

    Rusty :

    Nice! Do you think it will be ‘forward compatible’, i.e. iPhone 5?

    I can only hope… it’s a simple design and there is a bit of play in there so I bet it will work. no different than all the commercially available docks out there in radio’s etc… I cant imagine the next phone being bigger… so If anything it will be looser in the slot.

  8. Alan
    November 27th, 2011 at 00:59 | #8

    How thick is each layer? Cherry then Wenge?

    • Nik Brown
      November 27th, 2011 at 02:56 | #9

      Cherry is ~1/2″ Wenge is ~3/8″

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